In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money thanit is at making good operating systems.- Linus Torvalds

My name is Linus, and I am your God.- Linus Torvalds

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.- Linus Torvalds

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be,but California is still a lot nicer.I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.- Linus Torvalds

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki,and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.- Linus Torvalds

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.- Linus Torvalds

Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.- Linus Torvalds

Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.- Linus Torvalds

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software,because I have very seldom seen a program that hasworked well enough for my needs,and having sources available can be a life-saver.- Linus Torvalds

A consumer doesn't take anything away:he doesn't actually consume anything.Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is notreally any more expensive than giving it to just one.- Linus Torvalds

Programmers are in the enviable position of not onlygetting to do what they want to,but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it.There are other professions like that,but not that many.- Linus Torvalds

We have a lot of existing customers which are alsoconsidering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs,so we're learning from them.- Miguel de Icaza

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.- Nat Friedman

And when the time comes to replace the O2 I have today,maybe my next machine will run Linux.- Jamie Zawinski

We've been using C and C++ way too much -they're nice,but they're very close to the machine and what we wantedwas to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.- Miguel de Icaza

Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal,however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.- Jamie Zawinski

I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows,and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today,Unix is the best of a bad lot.- Jamie Zawinski

I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture.It's a great hacker's tool, and it has a lot of potentialto become something more.- Jamie Zawinski

Big Linux deployments have reached the point whereit's become a real problem for administrators thatthey don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops.- Nat Friedman

Linux evolved in a completely different way.From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hackedon by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.- Eric S. Raymond

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectualproperty sense to everything it touches.- Steve Ballmer

All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.- Steve Wozniak

Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux.- Bill Hayden

Linux is only free if your time has no value.- Jamie Zawinski

We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some peoplemight not be able to migrate.- Miguel de Icaza

I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel marginpressure from Linux as well as people saying:well actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC.And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent,so to speak.- Tim O'Reilly

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server,we don't design it for Windows or Linux,we design it for both.We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.- Michael Dell

There are a lot of people who've been able to ditchtheir Windows machines and switch over to Linux becausethey can now use their Exchange server for calendaringand collaboration from their Linux desktop.- Nat Friedman

In some cases we've been building tools that are specificto Linux for the desktop,and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly,wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice,and those two programs are cross platform.- Miguel de Icaza

I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice,and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux -you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operatingsystem and office suite in a single jump.- Miguel de Icaza

Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux;that's the beauty of standards,and of cross-platform code.I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine,and we can use the same applications anyway!- Jamie Zawinski

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courageto move in the opposite direction.- Albert Einstein

When I look back on all these worries,I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbedthat he had had a lot of trouble in his life,most of which had never happened.- Winston Churchill

Anyone who proposes to do goodmust not expect people to roll stones out of his way,but must accept his lot calmly,even if they roll a few stones upon it.- Albert Schweitzer

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,for only education would make their lot less bitter,their latent power more strong.- Jimmy Yen

Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lotof worry and regret by choosing to permanentlyerase it from your to-do list.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Instead of comparing our lot with thatof those who are more fortunate than we are,we should compare it with the lotof the great majority of our fellow men.It then appears that we are among the privileged.- Helen Keller